Is Obesity Research Flawed?
Hardly. Instead, it is the media that is flawed. If you found this site, you were truly interested in learning about the causes and effects of childhood obesity, and the obesity research involved in it. Unfortunately, you can’t find a lot of this information in the daily newspapers or on CNN and the like. That’s because people are sick of hearing how fat they are. We would rather watch news about death and destruction around the country than hear that we are all getting fatter and we need to change our lives to beat this problem. What is the research showing us? In 1962, research statistics showed that the percentage of obesity in America’s population was only 13%. By 1980 it had risen to 15% — by 1994 to 23% — and by the year 2000 the obesity progression in America had reached an unprecedented 31%! The U.S. Surgeon General report declared that obesity is responsible for 300,000 deaths every year. These overwhelming research statistics reveal an alarming obesity trend, the need for dia
